The Impact of COVID-19 on Adolescent Mental Health
Mindfulness and COVID-19
Current Study
Method
Study Design
Procedure
Participants
Measures
Internalizing Symptoms
Stressors
COVID-19 Contact
Dispositional Mindfulness
Data Analysis
Results
Descriptive Statistics
Variable | Total Sample (N = 383) | Class 1 (n = 244) | Class 2 (n = 72) | Class 3 (n = 67) | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M (SD) |
M (SD) |
M (SD) |
M (SD) | |||||
Internalizing Symptoms | W1 | 0.96 (0.62)* | 0.97 (0.64) | 0.95 (0.65)* | 0.91 (0.49)* | |||
W2 | 1.06 (0.65)* | 0.98 (0.63) | 1.24 (0.66)* | 1.17 (0.65)* | ||||
Depression | W1 | 0.83 (0.73)* | 0.86 (0.75) | 0.81 (0.73)* | 0.75 (0.65)* | |||
W2 | 0.99 (0.78)* | 0.92 (0.77) | 1.13 (0.79)* | 1.07 (0.78)* | ||||
Anxiety | W1 | 0.84 (0.68) | 0.85 (0.71) | 0.82 (0.67)* | 0.83 (0.53)* | |||
W2 | 0.93 (0.72) | 0.83 (0.68) | 1.11 (0.77)* | 1.09 (0.76)* | ||||
Stress | W1 | 1.20 (0.68) | 1.21 (0.68) | 1.22 (0.72)* | 1.15 (0.60) | |||
W2 | 1.27 (0.68) | 1.19 (0.68) | 1.47 (0.68)* | 1.35 (0.64) | ||||
Dispositional Mindfulness | W1 | 4.38 (0.78)* | 4.41 (0.78) | 4.30 (0.82) | 4.38 (0.70)* | |||
W2 | 4.25 (0.78)* | 4.36 (0.78) | 4.07 (0.75) | 4.07 (0.72)* | ||||
Stressors | W1-W2 | 3.01 (2.24) | 2.78 (2.17) | 3.51 (2.23) | 3.31 (2.43) | |||
Note. Class 1: no contact at all or just knowing someone (friend, family, or acquaintance outside home) infected with COVID-19; Class 2: knowing someone (friend, family, or acquaintance outside home) who has been infected, hospitalized, or die with COVID-19; Class 3: having themselves or living with someone who had COVID-19 or has been hospitalized; Wave 1: Data was collected in October 2019; Wave 2: Data was collected in October 2020 *Significant differences between W1 and W2: p < .05 |
Variables | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. Depression (W1) | - | ||||||||
2. Anxiety (W1) | 0.69** | - | |||||||
3. Stress (W1) | 0.65** | 0.71** | - | ||||||
4. Dispositional Mindfulness (W1) | − 0.46** | − 0.48** | − 0.55** | - | |||||
5. Stressors W1-W2 | 0.24** | 0.27** | 0.23** | − 0.23** | - | ||||
6. Depression (W2) | 0.47** | 0.44** | 0.35** | − 0.36** | 0.37** | - | |||
7. Anxiety (W2) | 0.38** | 0.49** | 0.37** | − 0.30** | 0.39** | 0.72** | - | ||
8. Stress (W2) | 0.34** | 0.41** | 0.46** | − 0.44** | 0.41** | 0.62** | 0.73** | - | |
9. Dispositional Mindfulness (W2) | − 0.34** | − 0.36** | − 0.38** | 0.60** | − 0.35** | − 0.48** | − 0.49** | − 0.59** | - |
10. Age | 0.08 | − 0.04 | 0.07 | − 0.15** | 0.08 | − 0.03 | − 0.03 | 0.00 | − 0.06 |
11. Socioeconomic Status | − 0.06 | − 0.10 | 0.02 | − 0.09 | − 0.20** | − 0.13* | − 0.13* | − 0.06 | 0.01 |
Note: *
p < .05; **
p < .01 |
Classes of Adolescents According to Their Contact with COVID-19
Fit Statistics | One-class model | Two-classes model | Three-classes model | Four-classes model |
---|---|---|---|---|
AIC | 1986 | 1843 | 1794 | 1781 |
BIC | 2010 | 1894 | 1873 | 1888 |
SSABIC | 1991 | 1853 | 1809 | 1802 |
Entropy | 0.66 | 0.80 | 0.81 | |
Bootstrapped likelihood ratio test | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |
Sample size of each class | C1 = 384 | C1 = 241 | C1 = 244 | C1 = 63 |
C2 = 143 | C2 = 72 | C2 = 69 | ||
C3 = 67 | C3 = 25 | |||
C4 = 227 | ||||
Note. AIC = Akaike Information Criterion; BIC = Bayesian Information Criterion; SSABIC = Sample-Size Adjusted BIC; C = class |
Predictive Associations between Variables
Mediation Analysis
B
| Estimate | Std. Error | z-value |
p
| 95% CI | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lower | Upper | ||||||
Direct Effects (c’)
| |||||||
COVID-19 Acquaintances◊ Depression | 0.083 | 0.164 | 0.085 | 1.936 | 0.053 | -0.008 | 0.329 |
COVID-19 At Home◊ Depression | 0.060 | 0.122 | 0.094 | 1.299 | 0.194 | -0.068 | 0.307 |
COVID-19 Acquaintances◊ Stress | 0.121 | 0.209 | 0.075 | 2.799 | 0.005 |
0.063
|
0.355
|
COVID-19 At Home◊ Stress | 0.068 | 0.122 | 0.085 | 1.422 | 0.155 | -0.054 | 0.282 |
Indirect Effects (a x b)
| |||||||
COVID-19 Acquaintances ◊ Dispositional Mindfulness ◊ Depression | 0.015 | 0.029 | 0.018 | 1.605 | 0.108 |
0.003
|
0.077
|
COVID-19 At Home ◊ Dispositional Mindfulness ◊ Depression | 0.020 | 0.040 | 0.022 | 1.838 | 0.066 |
0.008
|
0.096
|
COVID-19 Acquaintances ◊ Dispositional Mindfulness ◊ Stress | 0.021 | 0.035 | 0.019 | 1.849 | 0.064 |
0.004
|
0.081
|
COVID-19 At Home ◊ Dispositional Mindfulness ◊ Stress | 0.027 | 0.048 | 0.021 | 2.228 | 0.026 |
0.014
|
0.098
|
Total Effects (c’ + ab)
| |||||||
COVID-19 Acquaintances◊ Depression | 0.250 | 0.193 | 0.089 | 2.176 | 0.030 |
0.014
|
0.363
|
COVID-19 At Home◊ Depression | 0.080 | 0.162 | 0.101 | 1.594 | 0.111 | -0.044 | 0.359 |
COVID-19 Acquaintances◊ Stress | 0.141 | 0.245 | 0.083 | 2.940 | 0.003 |
0.084
|
0.408
|
COVID-19 At Home◊ Stress | 0.095 | 0.169 | 0.095 | 1.789 | 0.074 | -0.027 | 0.345 |